Stone Cottage Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk Home, Haysom Ward Miller Architects, New English Property Photos
Stone Cottage Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
3 June 2022
Design: Haysom Ward Miller Architects
Location: Bury St Edmunds,, Suffolk, south east England, UK

Photos by Richard Fraser
Stone Cottage in Bury St Edmunds is one of 17 projects which received a 2022 RIBA East Award.
Stone Cottage Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England
Jury Report
The jury were delighted with this architect?s family house, crafted with modest resources and a degree of self-build, but creating a characterful, poetic new lease of life for a former four-room labourer?s cottage.
A crumbly flint-walled cottage has been stabilised and retained and new elements have been sewn onto the original rooms, opening up the house to incredible views to the surrounding landscape that it formerly turned its back upon.
A complex relationship results from this mix of new and old volumes, with a shared family room now running across the back of the house at a half level up from the original cottage?s ground floor, enabling it to look over the neighbouring field. Working onto that are two ?cabins? and a bathroom for the family?s adult children.
On a separate staircase, the parents? room has been tucked into the first floor and opened roof space of the original cottage, winding around an original chimneybreast and culminating in a bed platform, accessed via a ladder stair and looking back over the fields. This sets up a dynamic t...